SOMETHING ELSE (Eastside 89.7FM)

These interviews took place on air, on the Eastside Radio 89.7FM (Sydney, Australia).

https://eastsidefm.org/

ARTemis Projects RADIO interviews

ASTRID LORANGE is Sydney based poet, performer, researcher and academic whose book ‘How Reading is Written’ (2015) explores the legacy of Gertrude Stein and challenges the settled conventions of language. Astrid believes that language – both in writing and reading – should be open to experimentation; always kept fresh and innovative. Language, in other words, should be a constant discovery. On 27 February 2015, Ira Ferris interviewed Astrid on Eastside Radio 89.7FM. 

For more about this episode see: https://artiris.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/queering-the-language-with-astrid-lorange/

Interview with poet and researcher Astrid Lorange: QUEERING THE LANGUAGE (Feb 2015)

Recorded on the occasion of DEAR SYLVIA exhibition, a group photomedia exhibition inspired by life of American poet Sylvia Plath.  

The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP)exhibition was curated by Claire Monneraye and featured works of nine female international artists who examine the representation of the female body and the female condition in contemporary society – whether this society is a developed, Western world (i.e. France, UK, Australia, Netherlands) or a country such as Romania, Ukraine, Palestine, South America, and Israel where not only female but human rights in general are under constant and extreme threat.

Through variety of photographic styles and genres, these nine female photomedia artist depict female body as both fragile and suffocated, as well as a powerful and vibrant agent of revolutionary change. In doing so they portray the complexity of Sylvia Plath’s own condition as unconventionally passionate women, a spirit eager to fly high and free in a society where freedom, joy and superfluous love was discouraged, perhaps even ridiculed.

On Thursday 5 February, Ira Ferris spoke to Claire Monneraye, the exhibition’s curator and Marlous van der Sloot, a Dutch photographer whose body of work features in the exhibition and examines the ways photography can be used to restore physicality to our overly rational minds; to encourage return to senses in what could be seen as a “touch starved” society. Marlous images re-establish connection between animal and human creating distortions that prompt us to re-learn to see.

“So we shall walk barefoot on walnut shells
of withered worlds, and stamp out puny hells
and heavens till the spirits squeak
surrender: to build our bed as high as jack’s
bold beanstalk; lie and love till sharp scythe hacks
away our rationed days and weeks.” ~ Sylvia Plath

Interview with curator Claire Monneraye & photographer Marlous van der Sloot (Feb 2015)

Sydney-based performance artist Frances Barrett discusses the long-durational performance art: the strategies employed in physical and mental preparation for the endurance pieces, potential ethical concerns involved, questions of time and altered state of consciousness this genre of performance art elicits, and much more. 

Is the intention behind the long-durational performance to put the audience in an uncomfortable position? Click play to find out. 

This show was inspired by the visit to Australia of the renowned New York based artist Tehching Hsieh, who is considered a “master” of the durational performance genre.

More info:
https://artiris.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/on-endurance-art-with-frances-barrett-2/

Interview with performance artist Frances Barrett: ENDURANCE ART (April 2014)

Michelle St Anne is a founder and Artistic Director of The Living Room Theatre, a Sydney based performing company engaged in production of multidisciplinary and “sensory oriented” work.

Here she speaks about why she likes non-linear and “illogical” theatre; how she uses various sensory stimulation (including smell) to  indulge imagination and enter the subconscious of people; why confusing the audience is important; and how interdisciplinary collaboration enriches her practice and brings variety of textures to each new work.

“I love confusing people; I think it’s really important because then you get them frustrated and the mind starts racing.”

Eastside-89.7FM

Interview with performance artist Michelle St Anne: WHY CONFUSION IS IMPORTANT (May 2014)

Macushla Robinson, assistant curator of contemporary international art at the Art Gallery of NSW, talks about Sol LeWitt, conceptual art pioneer whose 40 years of practice is currently showing at the Art Gallery of NSW. 

In late 60s Sol LeWitt wrote famous Paragraphs and Sentences on Conceptual Art and forged a new way of thinking about art practice, where idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work and the execution is only a perfunctory affair. 

More info: https://artiris.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/talking-sol-lewitt/#more-574

Interview with curator Macushla Robinson: TALKING CONCEPTUAL ART PIONEER SOL LEWITT (March 2014)

When we think of Pop Art we usually think of it as being a male dominated movement. Names such as Warhol, Lichtenstein, or Hamilton immediately spring to mind while it is almost impossible to recall a single female artist. But back in the days (1960s) pop art was not all about the blokes; female shared the art scene and the success with their male peers grappling with sexuality and consumer culture as much as their male counterparts. What has happened since and why have they fallen off the art historical map?

We speak to curator Maura Reilly and art historian Catriona Moore to shine the light back on them and expand the preconditioned understanding of what falls into the pop art movement.

Maura Reilly is a New York and Sydney-based curator, arts writer, and educator. In 2007, together with Linda Nochlin, she co-curated critically acclaimed Global Feminisms exhibition, a major international exhibition of feminist contemporary art. Maura is also a Founding Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the very first exhibition and public programing space in a U.S. museum devoted exclusively to feminist art. Her most recent publication Curatorial Activism: Toward an Ethics of Curating will be available in 2015.

Catriona Moore is art historian and the University of Sydney lecturer specialised in modern, postmodern and contemporary art with particular interest in feminist art and writing. In 2013, Catriona co-founded Contemporary Art & Feminism project steered by academics and curators with a long-standing commitment to the making, documentation, analysis and promotion of art practice and art writing informed by feminism.

Interview art historians Maura Reilly & Catriona Moore: DESTABILIZING THE POP ART CANON (Dec '14)

PODCAST-CONVERSATIONS with artists and art theorists, from visual to performing arts, discussing conceptual frameworks and philosophical outlooks. Also some SOUND-COLLAGES, assembled together on variety of themes, such as: sleep, silence, intuition, collaboration, failure, and more. 

Available via iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artemis-projects/id1462300886

PRODUCER & HOST: Ira Ferris (https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/projects-ira-ferris)

Interview with performance artist Michelle St Anne: WHY CONFUSION IS IMPORTANT (May 2014)

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